Pakistan to close Afghan refugee camps
Pakistan has decided to close down Afghan refugee camps in tribal districts along the Afghanistan border and move some 60,000 refugees out of the capital by the end of month, the UN said yesterday.
"In a move to further consolidate the Afghan refugee population... the government in Islamabad has announced its decision to close all camps in the Federally Adminis-tered Tribal Areas (FATA)," the UN refugee agency said in a statement.
A decision has also been taken to move Afghan refugees now scattered in and around the Pakistani capital, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) added.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Camps in Bajaur and Kurram on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border which are home to over 105,000 Afghan refugees will be closed on August 31, it said.
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